Gaffigan was
born in Chesterton\, Indiana in 1966 and attended La Lumiere School in La
Porte\, Indiana. He is the youngest of six children and often jokes about
growing up in a large family. He attended Purdue University for one year\,
where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. He graduated fro
m Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in 1988. Gaffigan w
restled in high school and played division 3 football while in college.